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Gordon B. Hinckley, the president and prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who led Mormonism through a period of global expansion, died Sunday at his home in Salt Lake City. He was 97. The church, which announced his death...

January 28, 2008, Monday

Tearful Mormon worshipers returned to this land of their ancestors today to dedicate the new limestone temple that believers said stood as a testament of their faith and of God's faithfulness. Small children and teenagers joined silver-haired men...

The first time two Mormon missionaries knocked on the door of her family's house in Taiwan, Ming Chun Chen, a teenager, took one look at the young men in black suits struggling to introduce themselves in broken Mandarin and shut the door. ...

As president and prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Mormons, Gordon B. Hinckley has achieved a number of distinctions unusual for the office. He has traveled the world, as widely, it would appear, as Pope John Paul...

It was at a memorial service for Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli Prime Minister who was assassinated in 1995, that Dave Checketts, the president of Madison Square Garden and a devout member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was struck...